Daily Reading List – October 14, 2024 (#418)

It was good to get back into a routine today! Check out some good items below, especially the first one.

[blog] How Hard Should Your Employer Work to Retain You? Goodness, what a post. Charity wrote a must-read piece for managers and individual contributors. Full of straight talk!

[blog] Better together: BigQuery and Spanner expand operational insights with external datasets. Nobody in the cloud pre-integrates like we do. Here’s another case of services that will cleanly work together. From BigQuery, issue queries to Spanner as if they were native tables within BigQuery. No data movement required.

[article] CIQ Unveils a Version of Rocky Linux for the Enterprise. If you’ve been hunting for an open, enterprise-grade Linux distribution since Red Hat retired CentOS, consider Rocky Linux.

[article] Replit’s Path to Product-Market Fit—The $1 Billion Side Project. Good story of having a vision in mind, and following the twists and turns along the way to building a product that resonates.

[blog] Introducing AI-powered app dev with code customization from Gemini Code Assist Enterprise. Time for a second look at Gemini Code Assist? Get strong enterprise features, customization based on code in GitHub and GitLab, a big input token window, and much more.

[blog] What Message Queue-Based Architectures Reveal About the Evolution of Distributed Systems. I started my career on this tech, and it’s definitely not flashy nowadays. But is it just core infrastructure that everyone assumes we need? This should be a good topic for Redmonk to explore.

[blog] Database Center — your AI-powered, unified fleet management solution. Can’t transform apps if you don’t transform ops. Here’s another solution for those trying to get a handle on their database estate.

[blog] Announcing Deno 2. In exploring this latest release of the JavaScript runtime, Simon uncovered a Jupyter notebook kernel in there. Nice option for those that want notebooks!

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